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Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still operate while appealing

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256 points reubensutton | 1 comments | 25 Nov 19 10:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.559s | source
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alkonaut ◴[25 Nov 19 16:07 UTC] No.21629387[source]▶
You can't hail a regular taxi in London with your phone still? Why? How do you get them? Call? Or do you have to wave your arms?

It's been 10 years since you could first do it in e.g. Stockholm with normal licensed taxis.

Edit what I mean are regular taxis, not "black cabs", "minicabs" etc. I mean the iconic taxis. If you can't hail those, why not?

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1. twic ◴[25 Nov 19 16:30 UTC] No.21629746[source]▶
There are several apps for hailing black cabs. There are also services where you can phone to order a black cab that have existed since before that:

https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/taxis-and-minicabs/book-a-taxi?intc...

There isn't a central service that gives you access to all cabs, though.

TfL used to have a service where you could text them, and they would text back two phone numbers for local minicab firms near you. That was really useful for getting home when you were in an unfamiliar part of town.